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tenor_tymir

Crypto debit card cashback is the next best thing i have found. Bybit gives 1% in USDC or BTC and ether.fi gives 3% in USDC. That’s not too bad actually.

Sajti1234

Ok i have no idea about all the wizard shit the other guy commented, and i sincerely hope you get it back, but i must ask just one question: Why would anyone put their spare dollars into a crypto wallet instead of just a bank or even cash? Out of all cryptocurrencies, you kept it in USDC which is pegged to the dollar, so then the value will inflate away all the same as cash anyways, just with way more complicated (and by now obviously more dangerous) tech...

Sajti1234

how much return does USDC offer?

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Pretend-Picture8974

Oh wow, that's absolutely devastating, losing wedding savings like that is a nightmare. It's so tough when you think a wallet is safe and then it's all gone in minutes. I try to be extra careful with my crypto, especially stablecoins like USDC. If you're unsure about wallet safety, FreezeRadar might help you sanity-check before you send.

Glass-Wheel7238

I did some digging into your transaction and followed the funds as far as I could. There are actually a few important things here that may give you a legitimate path to escalate this. Your original transaction was for **10,702.008824 USDC**: 0xfd03063823e54b1be8e2902f3b833840bd82f5dc374637887c5b14e66fea7c42 From what I can see, this looks much more like an **address-poisoning attack** than Polygon or MetaMask itself being hacked. The suspected attacker address is: 0x9b9Ae2db2C1fC598645cA2D954D1acB665b44F62 Address poisoning is where scammers create an address that looks extremely similar to one you’ve previously used and then get that address into your transaction history. Since MetaMask shortens wallet addresses, something like 0x9B9A...4F62 can look almost identical to the real address. If you copied a previous address from your transaction history, it’s possible you unknowingly copied the attacker’s look-alike address. Another reason I think this is possible is that your $10,702 transaction appears to have been a regular USDC transfer signed by your wallet. It doesn’t look like the typical transferFrom transaction you see when somebody drains a wallet through a malicious token approval. I also followed where your money went. After your original transaction, approximately **10,702 USDC** moved to: 0x93C215D29E0757d69156Eb939Bf8468dE269f05B TX: 0xfc3a937baf40f58a8a4595bae296823d92e82596227c7820362a4bf373051e0d Then approximately **10,692 USDC** moved to: 0x88F8eCbAa4fb38a60346f10A5c527230ebb1D9e9 The transactions included: 0xafc4cf5309b6c44ec346da64e9009e796b5350bb05bb240fd8bac8617d26c55e and 0xf97f0fa7947fd1c1f9e297951144adce3a8239e34088dba8da3e56f359b0a155 From there, the funds were split through several addresses: 0xF6B1D3Eb5d1Cf2b3E25fF9e3724C3e1d38A9a07c 0x9e06c2cD09d59CEeB0b821e3f89200b1A29C1808 0x29e6f28FB8961bE6290Ad18c2d76BCF8BC9bd39a 0x4D5Ee9fbB57a4C465629a501EFA02b9432253b4C Here’s the part I think is most important. The trail appears to eventually reach **Binance-related deposit infrastructure**. Approximately **7,395 USDC** appears to have gone toward: 0xAfC4A63C684bAB9DEfBDF6ccbc2ee167aa1df4aF And approximately **3,097 USDC** toward: 0xBD7E52424c2122484AF564568D6bcC0eE63FfFC3 The second address has previously been identified/indexed as a **Binance deposit address**. That doesn’t necessarily mean the thief personally has a Binance account. It could be an instant-swap service, intermediary, mule, nested service, etc. But it’s still important because Binance may be able to identify which internal account received those deposits. If that account has KYC information attached to it, law enforcement could potentially request the account information and see where the money went afterward. **I would file an IC3 report immediately if you haven’t already.** When you describe what happened, don’t just say: “My MetaMask was hacked.” I would tell them something closer to: “Approximately 10,702 USDC was fraudulently diverted through a suspected blockchain address-poisoning scheme. The proceeds were subsequently transferred through multiple Polygon addresses and appear to have reached Binance-associated deposit infrastructure.” Give them ALL of the wallet addresses and transaction hashes above. I would also file a local police report and specifically ask that it be forwarded to somebody who handles cybercrime/financial fraud. Then contact Binance and give them: Your original transaction hash The attacker address The intermediary addresses The apparent Binance addresses Your IC3 complaint number Your police report number Ask them to **preserve all records associated with the receiving account(s)**. They may tell you that they can’t freeze anything without law enforcement. That’s normal. Binance has a law-enforcement request system where investigators can request account/KYC and transaction information. There’s one other important thing: Because what was stolen was **USDC**, Circle may potentially be involved as well. USDC isn’t like Bitcoin where nobody controls it. Circle issues USDC and has the technical ability to freeze/block USDC in certain circumstances, especially when they receive a legitimate government/legal request. I wouldn’t expect Circle to freeze anything simply because you email them, but I would absolutely tell the investigator handling your case that this was USDC and ask whether they can contact Circle. Also, preserve EVERYTHING. Don’t delete MetaMask yet. Screenshot your entire transaction history, suspicious tiny transactions, the look-alike addresses, browser history, emails, messages, timestamps, etc. And obviously do not give anybody who DMs you: Your seed phrase Private keys Remote access to your computer Permission to connect your wallet Money for a “recovery service” Anyone claiming they can “hack the hacker” and recover the money for an upfront fee is almost certainly trying to scam you again. I can’t tell you that you’ll get the money back, because unfortunately there are no guarantees with this. **But I would not give up yet.** The fact that a significant portion of the trail appears to reach infrastructure associated with a centralized/KYC exchange is much more useful to investigators than if everything had simply disappeared into an unidentified private wallet. You actually have a pretty detailed blockchain trail to give law enforcement. If you haven’t already submitted an IC3 report, that’s probably the first thing I would do.

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AromaticSoft8291

**Public trace** **Victim** **↓ 10,702.008824 USDC** **Attacker wallet:** **0x9b9Ae2db2C1fC598645cA2D954D1acB665b44F62** **↓ 10,702 USDC** **0x93C215D29E0757d69156Eb939Bf8468dE269f05B** **↓ 200 USDC + 10,492 USDC** **0x88F8eCbAa4fb38a60346f10A5c527230ebb1D9e9** **↓ split among four suspected swap-service deposit addresses** **1. 0xF6B1D3Eb5d1Cf2b3E25fF9e3724C3e1d38A9a07c** **2. 0x9e06c2cD09d59CEeB0b821e3f89200b1A29C1808** **3. 0x29e6f28FB8961bE6290Ad18c2d76BCF8BC9bd39a** **4. 0x4D5Ee9fbB57a4C465629a501EFA02b9432253b4C** **↓ approximately $10,492 total** **Possible Binance/nested-service addresses:** **0xAfC4A63C684bAB9DEfBDF6ccbc2ee167aa1df4aF** **Received about 7,395 USDC** **0xBD7E52424c2122484AF564568D6bcC0eE63FfFC3** **Received about 3,097.009581 USDC**

AromaticSoft8291

**File an FBI IC3 report** For a victim in the United States, submit the same evidence to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. Also report it to the FTC. The FTC specifically directs cryptocurrency victims to IC3, the FTC, the CFTC, the SEC and the exchange involved. I am reporting an unauthorized cryptocurrency transfer involving approximately 10,702.008824 USDC on the Polygon network. I am requesting immediate preservation of all relevant account, transaction, IP, device and KYC records and, where legally possible, restriction of the receiving accounts pending a law-enforcement request. Original theft transaction: 0xfd03063823e54b1be8e2902f3b833840bd82f5dc374637887c5b14e66fea7c42 Amount stolen: 10,702.008824 USDC on Polygon Initial attacker wallet: 0x9b9Ae2db2C1fC598645cA2D954D1acB665b44F62 Known intermediate wallets: 0x93C215D29E0757d69156Eb939Bf8468dE269f05B 0x88F8eCbAa4fb38a60346f10A5c527230ebb1D9e9 Suspected intermediary or swap-service deposit addresses: 0xF6B1D3Eb5d1Cf2b3E25fF9e3724C3e1d38A9a07c 0x9e06c2cD09d59CEeB0b821e3f89200b1A29C1808 0x29e6f28FB8961bE6290Ad18c2d76BCF8BC9bd39a 0x4D5Ee9fbB57a4C465629a501EFA02b9432253b4C Addresses suspected of being Binance deposit addresses or addresses belonging to a service nested within Binance: 0xAfC4A63C684bAB9DEfBDF6ccbc2ee167aa1df4aF Approximately 7,395 USDC received 0xBD7E52424c2122484AF564568D6bcC0eE63FfFC3 Approximately 3,097.009581 USDC received Related transaction hashes: 0xfc3a937baf40f58a8a4595bae296823d92e82596227c7820362a4bf373051e0d 0xafc4cf5309b6c44ec346da64e9009e796b5350bb05bb240fd8bac8617d26c55e 0xf97f0fa7947fd1c1f9e297951144adce3a8239e34088dba8da3e56f359b0a155 I did not authorize these transfers. Please preserve all records associated with these addresses, identify whether they belong directly to Binance customers or to a nested exchange or swapping service, and provide instructions for the investigating law-enforcement agency to submit an official request. Police/IC3 case number: \[ADD CASE NUMBER\] Victim wallet address: \[ADD VICTIM ADDRESS\] Date and time discovered: \[ADD DATE AND TIME\] Binance support case number: \[ADD WHEN RECEIVED\] I can provide screenshots, wallet ownership evidence, identification, transaction records and device information upon request.

TechCynical

Yeah all 5 people and some bots. Don't worry it'll only cost everything you saved to withdraw from the LN. You could have saved the same amount by using any other L2 with USDC or wbtc.

Coleyx123

Shit, they do it with USD deposits on CB, apparently. I deposited 3k the other day to pay off by CB card, but also saw the statement date was that day, so I already got hit with the interest and parked it in lending for the 7% yeild until I have to make my next payment. Now I can't transfer anything out, but of course I can still deposit and trade on CB. It is what it is. I've got other wallets and the USDC is essentially theirs anyway, I'm just making a few bucks off it since they can't decide how many days are in a month when it comes to statement dates. The annoying part is going to be opening a ticket to resolve this and having to deal them wanting wtf ever they want. I've only had a CB account for a decade or so, with the same bank account that I linked on day one. Fuck me for being a responsible adult and paying bills, I guess. Although, I've watched CB shift over the years from a place to buy coin and transfer out to trade, to its current state of being a bank, exchange, gambling site, etc., and still deal with them, so maybe a responsible adult I am not.

Legitimate_Form5449

2026.08.06. USDC-0.999831 Start Date: 2018.10.08. 2026.08.06. WETH-1,907.56 Start Date: 2018.01.14.

Rock_Strongo

> I put virtually every purchase I make on credit cards to earn points. Until there’s a crypto equivalent that is just as frictionless, there’s no reason to transact daily purchases with crypto. Some exchanges have exactly this. I use the Coinbase card which is an American Express card so it's accepted most (but not all) places and I get back 4% in BTC. In addition, I pay it off every month with the USDC I have in my account, which gains ~3.5% (varies based on fed rates) while it sits there waiting to make payments. Is that the same thing as paying with crypto? Not really. But it's good enough for me.

MrSnugs

Kind of. I use my Coinbase credit card daily and pay if off with USDC. Also give me BTC back as a % of money spent.

skyddle

I've actually switched most of my spending to kardpay. No monthly fee, I just top up with USDT/USDC and use it on Applepay. It's been a much better fit for me since I mainly live on crypto anyway. As for the tap limit, that's usually set by the merchant or terminal rather than the card itself, but Applepay/Googlepay have no limits so it's pretty convenient.

Any_Way_5245

I’ve spent sats for random things in the past, even some Dogecoin for like coffee mugs, little stuff like that. But nothing straight up like bills etc. the closest thing was USDC being converted into USH via Coinbase card but I don’t think that’s really the same.

Big-D-Daddy4U

Deam man, ik ben gister echt precies op één vrijwel zelfde manier $5300 USDC en $7529,90 ineens omgezet in een UXLINK, die overduidelijk ook al aangeeft dat het een Malicious Token is, ik had het geld ook letterlijk gespaard voor een vakantie met het gezin, en ook wou ik me vriendin ten huwelijk vragen, ik had het allemaal al uitgedokterd, tot dit mij overkwam en ik weet ook in godsnaam wat nu te doen…

ArthurCBark

OP said he had the money in USDC, it's baffling why he wouldn't just have it in the bank. Unless he was using it to trade or dip into to buy crypto.

didnt_hodl

there are also countries which are either at war with US or under US sanctions or both. so it is not always their own government, which might be not only evil, but also simply absent in some cases. add to that runaway inflation in local currency, war, etc however: experience shows that folks in those countries rarely use bitcoin. it is considered expensive, slow and unstable. typically they use USDT on Tron, it is perceived to be less controllable by US. unlike USDC on Ethernet for example. of course, US has full control of USDT coins and has successfully frozen them in the past. still, folks use that and not bitcoin. that's just the reality

reddit4485

Circle can freeze funds gained illegally but you'll have to act fast before it gets swapped for some other currency that can't be frozen. My guess is it's a long process but probably worth it if it can be done. https://www.circle.com/legal/usdc-terms >Circle reserves the right to “block” certain USDC addresses and, if such addresses are Circle custodied addresses, freeze associated USDC (temporarily or permanently) that it determines, in its sole discretion, may be associated with illegal activity or activity that otherwise violates these Terms (“Blocked Addresses”). In the event that you send USDC to a Blocked Address, or receive USDC from a Blocked Address, Circle may freeze such USDC and take steps to terminate your USDC Account. In certain circumstances, Circle may deem it necessary to report such suspected illegal activity to applicable law enforcement agencies and you may forfeit any rights associated with your USDC, including the ability to redeem USDC for USD. Circle may also be required to freeze USDC and/or surrender associated USD held in Segregated Accounts in the event it receives a legal order from a valid government authority requiring it to do so.

reddit4485

Circle can freeze funds gained illegally but you'll have to act fast before it gets swapped for some other currency that can't be frozen. My guess is it's a long process but probably worth it if it can be done. https://www.circle.com/legal/usdc-terms >Circle reserves the right to “block” certain USDC addresses and, if such addresses are Circle custodied addresses, freeze associated USDC (temporarily or permanently) that it determines, in its sole discretion, may be associated with illegal activity or activity that otherwise violates these Terms (“Blocked Addresses”). In the event that you send USDC to a Blocked Address, or receive USDC from a Blocked Address, Circle may freeze such USDC and take steps to terminate your USDC Account. In certain circumstances, Circle may deem it necessary to report such suspected illegal activity to applicable law enforcement agencies and you may forfeit any rights associated with your USDC, including the ability to redeem USDC for USD. Circle may also be required to freeze USDC and/or surrender associated USD held in Segregated Accounts in the event it receives a legal order from a valid government authority requiring it to do so.

Slade_Duelyst

Your funds have moved to binance I traced a significant portion of the stolen USDC on Polygon. **Confirmed flow:** `Victim (0xfc4Cbff74a700Bb3EaC682061E0794cEB457422A)` → **10,702.008824 USDC** → `0x9b9Ae2db2C1fC598645cA2D954D1acB665b44F62` → `0x93C215D29E0757d69156Eb939Bf8468dE269f05B` → `0x88F8eCbAa4fb38a60346f10A5c527230ebb1D9e9` From there, the funds were split into four transfers: * **2,378 USDC** → `0x29e6f28FB8961bE6290Ad18c2d76BCF8BC9bd39a` * **2,622 USDC** → `0x9e06c2cD09d59CEeB0b821e3f89200b1A29C1808` * **2,395 USDC** → `0x4D5Ee9fbB57a4C465629a501EFA02b9432253b4C` * **3,097.009581 USDC** → `0xF6B1D3Eb5d1Cf2b3E25fF9e3724C3e1d38A9a07c` I traced the **3,097.009581 USDC** branch further: `0xF6B1D3Eb5d1Cf2b3E25fF9e3724C3e1d38A9a07c` → `0xBD7E52424c2122484AF564568D6bcC0eE63FfFC3` → **Binance: Hot Wallet 34** (`0xEe7aE85f2Fe2239E27D9c1E23fFFe168D63b4055`) The transfer into Binance occurred on **2026-08-01 19:12:56 UTC** for the full **3,097.009581 USDC**. The wallet `0xBD7E52424...` has a long history of receiving USDC and then forwarding the exact same amounts directly into **Binance: Hot Wallet 34**, so this appears to be an intermediary deposit wallet used before funds reach Binance. If Binance receives a preservation request or a lawful request from law enforcement, they should be able to identify the customer account that received credit for this deposit. The remaining three branches (2,378 USDC, 2,622 USDC, and 2,395 USDC) can also be traced further to determine whether they ultimately reached Binance, another exchange, or another destination.

CrackerJackJack

This is a tough one because I don’t think you were actually hacked. The problem looks like it was probably self address verification. Your history is full of lookalike addresses. You sent to 0x9b9Ae2db…b44F62, and there’s also 0x9B9A3299…4F62 and 0x9b9A34b3…4F62 in your history. Same first four, same last four. Those got planted by counterfeit USDC contracts using Unicode lookalike characters (eg. ÚSDС, UṢDC, ՍꓢƊС) plus zero-value real-USDC transfers, so each one shows up looking like a legit past payment. You almost certainly copied one of the wrong ones, and the truncated display made it look right. There was no transferFrom, no drainer contract, no approval. You signed it yourself with your own key. Funds ended up at 0x88F8eCbA… on Aug 1. Your only real shot is if that’s an exchange deposit address. Worth reporting fast with the hashes, though it’s almost certainly already through a bridge or mixer. Sorry OP, that’s a really unfortunate situation. It’s sad but **strong reminder to everyone to always check the full address when sending, not the first and last four, and never copy from transaction history.**

Hoax__

Your funds have been deposited to two Binance addresses: 0xAfC4A63C684bAB9DEfBDF6ccbc2ee167aa1df4aF - 7,395 USDC 0xBD7E52424c2122484AF564568D6bcC0eE63FfFC3 - 3097.009581 USDC It's likely these are actually the deposit addresses used by Instant Swapping Service like EasyBit which nest inside Binance for liquidity. This would mean law enforcement would need to approach Binance to identify if they are actually Binance addresses, or if they belong to a 'nested service'. Flow of funds: Initial theft TxID 0xfd03063823e54b1be8e2902f3b833840bd82f5dc374637887c5b14e66fea7c42 10,702 USDC moved from attacker wallet 0x9b9Ae2db2C1fC598645cA2D954D1acB665b44F62 to 0x93C215D29E0757d69156Eb939Bf8468dE269f05B in TxID 0xfc3a937baf40f58a8a4595bae296823d92e82596227c7820362a4bf373051e0d. 10,692 USDC moved from 0x93C215D29E0757d69156Eb939Bf8468dE269f05B to 0x88F8eCbAa4fb38a60346f10A5c527230ebb1D9e9 in two transactions. TxID 1 (200 USDC) - 0xafc4cf5309b6c44ec346da64e9009e796b5350bb05bb240fd8bac8617d26c55e TxID 2 (10,492 USDC) - 0xf97f0fa7947fd1c1f9e297951144adce3a8239e34088dba8da3e56f359b0a155 10 USDC was swapped for POL to use as gas fees. Address 0x88F8eCbAa4fb38a60346f10A5c527230ebb1D9e9 broke the stolen funds down through four deposit to four addresses. I would expect these four addresses are likely the deposit addresses for a swapping service as onward tracing is to the Binance addresses which is likely the swapping service sweeping its liquidity. The four receiving addresses suspected to be swapping service deposit addresses are: 1 - 0xF6B1D3Eb5d1Cf2b3E25fF9e3724C3e1d38A9a07c 2 - 0x9e06c2cD09d59CEeB0b821e3f89200b1A29C1808 3 - 0x29e6f28FB8961bE6290Ad18c2d76BCF8BC9bd39a 4 - 0x4D5Ee9fbB57a4C465629a501EFA02b9432253b4C. Worth filing a report with your relevant law enforcement and contacting Binance to see if the deposit addresses 0xAfC4A63C684bAB9DEfBDF6ccbc2ee167aa1df4aF and 0xBD7E52424c2122484AF564568D6bcC0eE63FfFC3 are linked to nested services. With some luck, you might be able to contact the nested services and identify where the funds have gone.

AvailableTie6834

bruh, the hacker could have swapped this for Monero and then for BTC or back to USDC and use on any crypto card out there...

Extreme-Tie9282

!RemindMe lost 130k in USDC

Junglebook3

I wonder how both of these claims can be true: 1) Instant settlement, i.e. when buying a unit of Apple stock with USDC, I instantly own the Apple stock 2) True ownership of the underlying stock, i.e. when I buy dApple I have legal rights to one unit of Apple stock Given that brokerages do not offer instant settlement when transacting equities. Does this mean that Dinari will be on the hook during the business day the underlying stock has not settled? Or that end users are at risk during that time period? i.e. I pay via USDC to buy stock, and something happens between the money leaving my wallet and the underlying stock settling? It would sure be swell if Dinari could highlight what can I do with my dStocks once I buy them. What is the advantage to buying over on Fidelity? Can I borrow against my dStocks? (Robinhood offers instant margin loans against equities, and also has insurance, is regulated, etc). What can I do with these things? Is it solely to accommodate degens that keep 100% of their portfolio on-chain, finally allowing them to have their equities on-chain as well? These aren't the people that tend to buy equities in the first place. Will I be able to trade dStocks on Hyperliquid maybe, with leverage? I think there's potential but a lot of other things have to happen first for Dinari to offer value.

psi-storm

That is laughable. People were holding USDT because the exchanges traded other coins against it. Which EU exchange will swap those trades over to USDR, so they can motivate people to swap and keep the liquidity? The liquidity of European investors already mostly moved over to USDC.

East-Day-7888

Very true, now describe a ponzi scheme to them and watch them roll around the subject pretending some how btc is different. "What about gooooold, and reserve currencies" Lol okay bud, smoke another and enjoy your dilusional cypher punk sovereign nation currency, and go ahead and pay 2 dollars for you snickers bar in btc, dont mind the $35 fee. Dont get me wrong crytpo payments ARE the future, but its never going to be a solo token. Its More likely to be something like USDC operating on an Hbar rail system. So providers are not hit with verible fees and impermanent loss.

The-maulted-One

You’re talking about 100’s of millions of dollars worth. ‘Swap small amounts into USDC’……… come on now, I’m sure you can be a bit more creative than that!? It looks like the original perpetrator may have used a paid subscription service to scan the blockchain for vulnerable wallets. If this is the case then he’ll be on a plane to the U.S curtesy of the US justice department at some point in the future.

CommonBrilliant6956

Agreed as if the mechanics of buying, selling, exchanging, swapping aren't challenging enough; one mistake is all it takes to loose everything. The support for most wallets and exchanges is fair at best and often poor. Too many bots that waste your time until you might get a live customer assist. On top of all that there are a tremendous number of scams that are quite adept at getting you to relinquish your money. Hackers are indeed a problem. Anyone wNt to bit 200,000k of counterfeit USDC. Thanks to the elimination of rules and procedures by this administration, going into the crypto world is tantamount to rolling dice and hoping for the best. At least at a Casino I can always get out and go home. With crypto you may have been set up at a clone site and when it's tine to get out your told the platform is collecting your taxes before you get out. Whether you pay or dont, your not getting any if your money back. I am going back to stocks,start trading and options. At least when I call a broker like Schwab, I always get a helpful person on the line.

Standard_Web7962

Why do they prefer USDT over USDC/USDS in Venezuela?

DarkChurro

Here's what you do. Swap into USDC on Base. Head over to Pool together or some other vaulting protocol. Collect apr on your deposit. Reinvest rewards. Repeat and compound. No BTC. No memecoins. No prediction markets. Just good ol' fashion earned interest.

MushrooGuy

And why would anyone want to use a network with a gas token that is volatile when Circle is making ARC that uses USDC as gas or STABLE by tether/Bitfinex that uses USDT as a gas. XRP is the modern day FTX. They buy through hundreds of millions of tokens monthly just to fund Ripple's newest business venture... Which won't use XRP either. It's cult like at this point

Savings-Pause9864

Yeah I agree with the principle. I just think people can separate the two: long term holdings in whatever setup gives them peace of mind and a simpler tool for daily payments if they want to spend it. That’s why I use Oobit as my spending layer for USDT/USDC and not as my main holding setup

Wizy42

Curious if anyone else here does freelance work and gets paid in USDC - I've been building a small tool called Stablance to auto-classify wallet payments into income/invoices and spit out a tax-ready report, since most crypto tax tools out there are built for traders, not for freelancers who just want to invoice a client and know what they owe. Anyone else running into that gap?

Rough-Suggestion-294

Worth knowing before you plan a big one: "accepts Bitcoin" and "accepts your Bitcoin" are not the same claim, and the gap is almost never disclosed on the product page. Sotheby's is the clearest example. They do take BTC, ETH and USDC, but only on lots specifically designated for it, and their own bidder guidance states payment has to arrive from one of five named custodial exchange wallets (Coinbase Custody Trust, Coinbase Inc., Fidelity Digital Assets, Gemini Trust, Paxos Trust), from a single wallet, after photo ID is on file. A payment from your own hardware wallet is refused. So the person most likely to be bidding is the one who can't pay. TAG Heuer is the opposite shape: they will take self-custodied crypto through BitPay on the online boutique, but their US terms cap the whole purchase at USD 10,000, which isn't mentioned anywhere near the products. Pavilions Hotels publishes a proper crypto page covering 28 assets, and then excludes its Bali and Phuket properties from it. Two of the best known hotels in the group, carved out of the group's own policy. None of that is a rail limitation, incidentally. BitPay's own terms say plainly that it has no access to or control over crypto in your wallet and doesn't provide custody. Where a merchant demands a named custodian, that is the merchant's own source-of-funds policy, not the processor's. Practical version: for anything meaningful, read the merchant's actual terms page rather than the "we accept Bitcoin" badge, and ask which wallet before you commit. The constraint clusters at auction houses and banks, the places with the heaviest source-of-funds duty, and is rare at dealers and hotels.

TellBrak

Hey check this out. There's a cool media company called Roundtable that pays publishers for their ad revenue directly into Coinbase wallets. Like if you ahve a website with ads and you host your content on their platform, they livetime pay your wallet in USDC. The company is now on NASDAQ, the stock is between 15-20$. Meanwhile, they have a coin, called RTB. It's not trading for much -- when does it come into play?

Working-Algae-7318

I completely agree with you. Exchange to bank works smoothly, that’s a clean route. I use Oobit for USDT/USDC spending from my phone and bank transfers when I actually need fiat which is the cleanest setup i found

quintavious_danilo

Ether.fi gives you 3% cashback in USDC. That’s the most I know of for a free plan. Usually I take the USDC and buy BTC at the end of each month. I used to use the Bybit.eu 2% BTC cashback card, but they cut it down to 1% as if recently so I’m now with Ether.fi

Reasonable-Poem-3486

I deposited 4000 USDC On July 28, stupid of me.

TequilaTsunami

You could always just take interest in the form of BTC, by far the easiest thing imo. Coinbase (and I’m sure others) pays interest on USDC held with them and you can chose to get paid in BTC or you could stake it

ninenulls

Too late. I sold it all. With clarity dying and RWA going to private chains, the only thing you can count on is using USDC at Walmart. Flat dollar coins have a future. Everything else will jump around, more down than up. Look at the monthly chart of bitcoin and tell us you're not concerned

Possible_Survey_2112

Exactly and I use Oobit for that because I can spend USDC from Google pay instead of dealing with P2P every time

blue-chips

Is the $50 balance in an ERC-20 token? If so, you may not have the right tokens to pay gas fees to make a transfer. Looks like you're using the OKX Wallet. You can apparently pay gas fees on with ETH, USDT, USDC, or USDG (in addition to ETH). [https://web3.okx.com/help/gas-fees-faq](https://web3.okx.com/help/gas-fees-faq)

master-beast-72

The humanitarian payments use case is one of the most credible and underreported applications of cryptocurrency, and the friction points are more specific than the generic "crypto solves banking access" narrative. **Where it actually works**: In conflict zones and failed-state economies, the problem isn't just banking access — it's that the banking system is actively hostile or has collapsed. In places like Syria, Sudan, and parts of Ukraine during active conflict, traditional remittances route through correspondent banks that may be blocked by sanctions, require controlled currencies that nobody trusts, or simply have no physical branch infrastructure remaining. Stablecoin transfers (USDC, USDT) have worked because a smartphone + internet is sufficient to receive funds. The UN World Food Programme ran the Building Blocks program in Jordan with ~10,000 Syrian refugees, settling food vouchers on Ethereum. Operational savings were significant compared to traditional banking infrastructure. **Where the friction remains**: The "last mile" problem: receiving USDT does nothing if there's no local off-ramp to spend it. This requires either merchants that accept stablecoins directly (rare outside specific cities) or a local exchanger who will convert to cash — which reintroduces exactly the trust and geography problems crypto was supposed to solve. KYC requirements create a paradox: the people most in need of crypto humanitarian aid (stateless refugees, people without ID) are also the hardest to onboard due to wallet and exchange compliance requirements. The Humanitarian Payments Council being in its 3rd year is a meaningful signal that practitioners are moving from proof-of-concept to systematic adoption, which is progress worth tracking.

Django_McFly

It takes like sub 20 seconds to do a swap on a CEX or a DEX so I don't know if one really has a speed advantage worth mentioning over the other. If anything, I can send 10k USDC to a wallet, swap it on a DEX and be done in less than a minute. I send 10k USDC to Coinbase, they don't accept is as a valid thing until a few minutes pass. When you say "faster", what actions are faster? CEXs definitely aren't cheaper. Once you can wrap your head around a wallet, the joy of getting ripped off on a CEX generally fades. That's why DEX vs CEX volume has been growing for years in a row now. https://swap.defillama.com/?chain=ethereum&from=0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48&tab=swap&to=0xcbb7c0000ab88b473b1f5afd9ef808440eed33bf At the same time $10k USDC got me 0.157X cbBTC (Coinbase's own BTC, so a third party should definitely be selling it at a worse price than Coinbase official right?) at the worst dex, Coinbase was offering me 0.153X for their cbBTC for $10k. On jup.ag, $10k gets me 136.5 SOL. On Coinbase, $10k gets me 132.8 SOL. People who have never used a DEX in their life (or have and are just lying to you about the prices offered) are just making up stuff about how much they cost to use. CEXs quote you on a spread (when you sell, they pretend the price is much lower and when you buy, they pretend the price is much higher) **and** charge fees on top of the spread.

thegoddessofgloom

Take USDC. Get a Coinbase debit card

Wheaties4brkfst

Yeah kind of seems like the CEXes are pretty integral to the crypto ecosystem. What else would you do, bitcoin atm? Buy them off someone in person? I just don’t see how crypto works at scale with something resembling a CEX. Maybe you just go straight to USDC or your favorite stablecoin issuer? A one coin CEX? lol.

Warrior_witha_Garden

there was this thing called Bitcoin... it was created 17 years ago. it was designed or this purpose ! make people pay you in bitcoin. then sell the bitcoin when you need cash. you can use robosats or sell it for USDC. ask your ai to help you on this one

FreyasFantasys

we are going for USDC. its stable. and it can be cashed out for real $ without all the fluctuating BS. i need a way for them to just put in their card info and thats it. purchase complete.

The_Bitcoin_Act

Good instinct, and the civic mechanics here are real, calls to your own senators' offices get logged, tallied by position, and passed up to legislative staff who track constituent sentiment on pending bills. It's one of the few forms of advocacy that actually moves a vote count. So the "pick up the phone" energy is well placed. That said, as someone who reads this stuff for a living, I'd gently reset the "one yard line" framing, we're in the red zone, but there's a goal-line stand happening and the clock matters. Here's where the CLARITY Act actually sits: it passed the House back on July 17, 2025 (294–134), cleared the Senate Banking Committee on May 14, 2026 (15–9), but has not had a full Senate floor vote and hasn't been signed. It's on the Senate calendar and eligible for floor consideration, and Senate Republicans dropped updated text on July 22 merging the Banking and Agriculture versions and adding ethics provisions but the July 4 signing target already came and went. It still needs a cloture vote, which means rounding up seven to nine Democratic votes to clear the 60-vote filibuster threshold.  If you're going to call, being specific makes you more persuasive than a scripted "vote yes." The three things actually jamming it up right now: a Section 604 dispute where prosecutors argue the language would hamstring criminal investigations involving crypto, the ethics provision on federal officials issuing or sponsoring digital assets, and the stablecoin-yield question (which has real money behind it, Coinbase alone earns something like $1.35 billion a year in USDC rewards). Knowing which of those you care about lets you say something a staffer will actually note down. On timing, the Senate leaves for its state work period around August 10, and if the bill doesn't get floor action before then, its 2026 window narrows sharply. So if you're calling, the next couple of weeks are the ballgame. Call your own state's two senators, say you're a constituent, name the bill, keep it to 30 seconds, and be kind to whoever answers, they're 24 and drowning in calls. [](https://tech-insider.org/clarity-act-2026-status/)

Alternative-Pause505

Well in this case you need to bridge USDC to arbitrum, which is already an issue. You can try switcher instead

Trick-Apple-202

I think cashback is what gets most people to try a crypto payment app, but it's rarely why they stick around. If the experience is clunky, the rewards only go so far. I'd still use it if the cashback disappeared tomorrow just because i dont have to change how I manage my crypto to make a payment. That said, it also depends on where you live. If you're in a country dealing with high inflation or a volatile currency, being able to hold and spend USDT or USDC is honestly a way bigger W than a few extra percent in cashback

Trick-Apple-202

I think cashback is what gets most people to try a crypto payment app, but it's rarely why they stick around. If the experience is clunky, the rewards only go so far. I'd still use oobit if the cashback disappeared tomorrow just because i dont have to change how I manage my crypto to make a payment. That said, it also depends on where you live. If you're in a country dealing with high inflation or a volatile currency, being able to hold and spend USDT or USDC is honestly a way bigger W than a few extra percent in cashback

Reach_Beyond

I’d rather light my money on fire than buy any of the alts you listed. I’d buy and do own significant BTC, ETH. All others (maybe SOL or I’d have to research XRP) I’d just hold USDC.

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Post is by: Macro-Equity and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/technicalanalysis/comments/1v5i61h/usdtd_at_85_what_stablecoin_dominance_isnt/ TL;DR — Stablecoin dominance is a ratio. It rises either because fresh money is coming in (dry powder), or simply because the rest of the market is collapsing. The chart looks identical in both cases. Right now USDT.D sits at 8.5% while supply has been flat for months — that's the second case. And we've seen this signature before. Disclosure: None of this is financial advice. The problem with USDT.D You see it constantly: "USDT.D bouncing off support → alt season incoming." The implicit reasoning is that rising dominance = capital waiting on the sidelines = fuel for the next leg up. That can be true. It can also be completely wrong. The dominance chart alone can't tell you which. The mechanics : USDT.D = USDT market cap / total crypto market cap It's a fraction. It rises in two opposite situations: Case 1 — the numerator rises. New USDT gets minted. Fresh money enters and parks in stables. Real dry powder. Constructive. Case 2 — the denominator falls. Supply doesn't move an inch, but BTC/ETH/alts get destroyed. Dominance rises mechanically, without a single new dollar arriving. The chart goes up the same way in both cases. That's the whole problem. How to tell them apart: absolute supply Look at market cap in dollars, not percentage. On TradingView: CRYPTOCAP:USDT below USDT.D. |Dominance|Absolute supply|Reading| |:-|:-|:-| |↑|↑|Genuine inflows. Capital waiting. Constructive| |↑|flat or ↓|No new money. The market is just bleeding.| |↓|stable or ↑|Capital deploying into risk. Risk-on signal.| Only the first has predictive value. And it's visible only on the supply panel.  Top: USDT.D weekly. Bottom: USDT market cap (CRYPTOCAP:USDT). Boxes aligned on the same time windows. What the chart shows Today: USDT.D at 8.50% (+1.45% on the week). USDT supply at 183.99B, down roughly 30M week over week. Dominance is climbing while supply has been flat since early 2026, with slightly negative weeks. Do the implicit math. If dominance rises sharply while the numerator stays fixed, the denominator — total crypto market cap — must be contracting. That's what this chart is saying, and it's invisible if you only look at the top panel. 2022-2023: same signature. Dominance peaks around 9.1%, and on the bottom panel you can see USDT supply contracting meaningfully over the same window (from \~83B down toward \~65-70B). That wasn't dry powder accumulating. That was the bear market: the market collapsing while money genuinely exited the ecosystem. Today dominance sits at 8.5%, just below that peak, with the same absence of net inflows. Limitations of this comparison (important) I'd rather raise these myself than leave them for the comments: 1. The magnitudes aren't comparable. In 2022-2023 supply actually contracted, on the order of −20%. In 2026 it's a plateau with marginal weekly moves (−0.02%). What they share is the absence of net inflows, not the intensity. This is a growth stall, not a collapse. 2. Two occurrences aren't a statistic. I'm showing what this configuration looked like last time. I'm not claiming the outcome repeats. 3. The context changed. Spot ETFs didn't exist in 2022. Part of institutional capital no longer needs to route through stablecoins to get exposure — so this indicator captures TradFi flow less well than it used to. It mostly tells you what's happening inside crypto-native markets. 4. The levels aren't identical. \~9.1% in 2022 versus 8.5% today. USDT ≠ USDC: the layer above Aggregating all stablecoins throws away the most interesting information. USDT — offshore-dominant, Asia, retail, non-US exchanges, perp markets. It's leverage collateral. Its supply reflects global speculative appetite. USDC — regulated, US rails, DeFi, corporate treasuries, banking on/off-ramp. Its supply reflects institutional capital. The divergences are the real signal: USDC ↑, USDT flat → institutional money via US rails. Slower, generally more durable. USDT ↑, USDC flat → offshore leverage and speculation. Faster, more fragile. Both contracting → global deleveraging. Money leaving crypto. One level deeper: supply by chain. Stables flowing onto one chain while global supply stagnates isn't new money — it's capital rotation. Invisible on an aggregate dominance chart. (Not available on TradingView; use DefiLlama.) Other caveats worth knowing Not every mint is new money. There's cross-chain rebalancing and treasury pre-positioning. Look at smoothed net mints, never the isolated event. This is a slow indicator. Regime context, not entry timing. Don't build an intraday trade on it. Correlation ≠ causation. Rising supply doesn't force anyone to buy. It indicates capacity, not intent. What this actually changes None of this gives you an entry. What it gives you is a regime filter: knowing whether you're trading in an environment where capital is genuinely available, or one where dominance is rising simply because everything around it is burning. The two look alike on a chart. They don't have the same follow-through. What I'm watching for a regime change: supply resuming its uptrend, not dominance falling. If USDT.D drops while supply keeps contracting, that's a false signal of exactly the kind described above. Data: TradingView (USDT.D, CRYPTOCAP:USDT, CRYPTOCAP:TOTAL), DefiLlama for per-chain breakdown. Do you track stablecoin supply in your process? Curious whether anyone here watches the per-chain split, and on what horizon you find it actionable. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

master-beast-72

the framing of "licensing test" is accurate but the second-order effect is interesting: MiCA is one of the clearest regulatory frameworks globally, which is actually why large institutional players are moving toward EU compliance rather than away from it. the friction is concentrated on smaller firms. a CASP license requires capital requirements, governance documentation, custody standards, AML/KYC procedures — all manageable for Coinbase or Kraken but genuinely burdensome for a startup or regional exchange. what this produces is regulatory consolidation: a smaller number of licensed CASPs with a clear legal basis to operate, rather than a fragmented landscape of grey-area operators. the irony is this might benefit DeFi indirectly. MiCA's scope is explicitly limited to intermediaries (CASPs), not to the protocols themselves. Aave, Uniswap, Curve — the "sufficiently decentralized" carve-out means they operate outside MiCA's licensing requirement. so as centralized intermediaries face compliance costs, the permissionless alternative becomes relatively more attractive to users who know how to self-custody. the USDT delisting was the most disruptive near-term consequence. circle positioned USDC as the MiCA-native stablecoin (EMI license in France), which is why you see USDC liquidity deepening in EU-accessible venues while USDT thins out.

master-beast-72

worth separating a few things here because the blame is getting mixed: the derivatives restriction on EU retail isn't MiCA itself — that's MiFID II and ESMA leverage limits that predate MiCA by years. MiCA is mostly about licensing requirements for exchanges and stablecoin issuers, not product restrictions. where MiCA actually bit hard was USDT: Tether never got an e-money license, so Kraken, Bitvavo etc. had to delist it. that fragmented stablecoin liquidity because traders were used to USDT pairs everywhere. USDC fills the gap for MiCA purposes (Circle has an EMI license in France) but it took time for liquidity to migrate. the underreported silver lining: fully decentralized protocols are technically excluded from MiCA's scope — Uniswap, Curve, Aave still work fine for EU users, no geofencing required. the regulation is centralized-intermediary regulation, not a ban on DeFi. the genuine frustration — fragmented orderbooks, no perps — is real but it's mostly the pre-existing MiFID situation, not something MiCA created. which doesn't make it less annoying but it's worth understanding what's actually driving what.

NimbleNido

Best way to do this in a decentralized fashion would be to swap the USDT for UBTC on Hyperliquid. You can then withdraw the UBTC as native Bitcoin to your wallet without issue, or hold it Spot on Hyperliquid, though this becomes subject to protocol risk. Either bridge your USDT to Arbitrum as USDC then deposit, or Swap directly in an aggregator from USDT to UBTC with a slight fee. UBTC is Unit's Spot BTC offering on Hyperliquid that's driven >$64B in cumulative spot volume since launching in February 2025. Not shilling, but sharing a newer protocol that I've found no issue with since launch.

Django_McFly

I use Coinbase, but pretty much the only "exchange" I do with them is exchanging dollars in my bank for USDC and then I buy what I want on a DEX. And as a free bridge for USDC/ETH/cbBTC. I kinda don't like them but they offer 1:1 USDC to USD on buys and sells so it's convenient. There *was* a Direct Deposit program which was nice but they got rid of it and switched to a provider I don't trust. They changed my account, gave me no notice, their attitude was "meh, I'm sure he'll notice something is up when the money is missing so why bother letting him know ahead of time?" Binance.us was always ass. Crazy fees on everything, even when you withdraw to BSC. For the tokens I buy, Coinbase withdraw fees are $0 as long as I'm not withdrawing to ETH L1. I actually liked FTX.us because they treated like 5 different stables as 1:1 with USD and supported a bunch of chains, but obviously they had issues. Kraken is a US exchange and is older than Coinbase but they didn't start accepting US bank transfers until like 6 years after Coinbase did, so they weren't a real option for me (my primary use is converting dollars in my bank for crypto) when I was getting started.

WOOKIE-41

They train you which afterwards you start with 100 USDC and ask to withdraw it to put back into your account to work with by so called optimize orders. They tell you to do 30 orders 3x a day. After 5 days of this work you are paid 800. 15 days 1500 and 30 days 3000. As you optimize orders you may come across joint orders. Which puts you in the negative in the account leveraging you to put your money to finish the order. Which happened to me in the last 3 days. I'm going to use rough estimates but this joint order is all connected. I started with 110 and the order went negative cause the joint orders are 20% when orders are usually .5%. so I put into 110 to optimize. In the account now is 220. Another joint order I add 250. So 480. Another comes along and I match it by adding 480 there's 1000 now. Another joint order I add 1500. At this point I'm at a total loss because I thought that was it with joint orders. The last orders in the set were 3 joint orders from 20-30. The last joint order required me to put in 4500. I knew it was too good to be true to try a remote job at home the seemed so simple by pressing a button.

Ill-Square-1123

wait, so there's an Afghani Stablecoin that is being used to make payments? So suppose I want to send USD to family in Afghanistan, instead I send them USDC and they convert that to Afghani Stablecoin and pay directly with that? W

semanticweb

Hesab Pay is already doing it in Afganistan . They are doing it via a Afgani stablecoin. So may be converting USDC to Afgani before distribution. https://hesab.com/

Ill-Square-1123

yet another one of these that is just complete hogwash. They say the issue is the reputable banks have left these underdeveloped countries. But then they say they sent the Stablecoin to a partner in the country, who then converts it to cash, vouchers, etc. So they have to offramp it. How are they going to offramp it? These "thought papers" always stop at the point where their recommendations become practical and just hope no one notices. A lot of these people in these countries do not have the resources to have a phone, much less a wallet. So even if you send direct to crypto wallets, not enough people will be eligible. This works only if: 1. The country in question accepts digital currency without the need to offramp (a.k.a is part of the VISA network that is being built) 2. Has a tool (e.g., a wallet/account/digital currency card) that can be scanned to pay for things 3. People have readily available access to to this tool Stablecoins solve the first issue of volatility... and USDC has enough liquidity around it that it'll be very viable in the future. Maybe Canadian, European, and a couple other currencies will be acceptable in this regard. But Stablecoin still has MASSIVE hurdles that need to be fixed before it can do this reliably...

mikeg4015

Crypto will eventually amount to an EPIC rug pull over all. Adoption is the goal. USDC and its synthetic US Treasury support is the canary in the coal mine. Trump is a massive marionette.

Logical_Lemming

Go to app.aave.com and you can see the borrow APRs for USDC and USDT. They're around 4% right now, but they'll go up if we ever have another bull market.

Bluejumprabbit

Stablecoins without the need to know the chain probably. If someone can hold USDC, send it, spend it, and never once care whether the app used Base, Solana, or Ethereum underneath then that would be unlocking retail in

pommesUNDwurst

I haven't called the top. But I got out before the price went in the shitter (ca 105k$). I took some Profits into stocks. Most of it is sitting in a Money Market ETF or USDC and still waiting to be reinvested. I will start my DCA once we drop below the "realized" price (53k). And will move relatively fast (couple of weeks, 2 months max). Good luck.

TaraLaro

Downmarket - USDC Upmarket - SOL

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Post is by: Efficient_Policy_176 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/Coinbase/comments/1ux7iqe/coinbase_advanced_just_scammed_me_out_of_1350usd/ This was my last straw (has happened countless times but I always just accepted whatever they said before). # Coinbase just wiped out half my account balance on a liquidation that was mathematically nowhere near triggering, and their support team is actively running me in circles to cover it up. **I need to know if anyone else has dealt with this bullshit and how to force them to fix it.** # Here is exactly what they did: # The Trade: I was holding a short position on BTC-PERP on Coinbase International. I had approximately 1,626 USDC in cross-margin equity against a 61,650 USDC notional size. # The Early Trigger: A standard 1% maintenance margin means I should have had a price buffer up to roughly 63,684 USDC. The fucking risk engine liquidated me at 63,141.7 instead. It completely bypassed my available cross-margin equity. # The Hidden Fees: They drained 1,350 USDC from my wallet. Over $600 USD of that was pure penalties. But when I downloaded the official PDF transaction history to prove it, the "Fees" column for every single liquidation fill literally says $0.00. They are masking a massive fee inside the execution spread or settlement and refusing to itemize it.  # Support Bait and Switch: I got onto live chat 3 weeks ago and forced an escalation. They gave me Case ID 26870807 and told me to wait 7 days for the specialized engineering team to audit the math. I waited the full week. When I followed up, the bot completely ignored my questions and just gave me a brand new Case ID (26944953) to reset their internal clock so they do not have to answer me, told me to wait another week and I did. 2 days ago, for the third time asking, they told me within 24hrs I will get an email reply (and nothing yet!). (More detail into the trade:) # The Exact Trade Breakdown: **Position:** BTC-PERP (Short) **Leverage:** 50x **Average Entry Price:** \~62,650 USDC **Notional Size:** \~61,650 USDC (approx. 0.9765 BTC) **Available Cross-Margin Equity:** \~1,626 USDC # The Broken Math: At 50x leverage with a standard 1% maintenance margin, the exchange requires me to maintain about **616.50 USDC** in the account to keep the trade open. Since my total equity was **1,626 USDC**, I had a buffer of about **1,009.50 USDC** to absorb any price spikes before hitting that 1% liquidation threshold. If you divide that 1,009.50 USDC buffer by my position size (0.9765 BTC), the price of Bitcoin would have needed to rise by roughly **1,033 USDC** from my entry price to wipe out my margin. **Entry (62,650) + Buffer (1,033) = 63,683 USDC Liquidation Price.** Instead, their risk engine panic-liquidated my entire position at **63,141.7 USDC**. It completely ignored over 500 USDC of my cross-margin buffer, instantly closed my short at a worse price, and then charged me over $600 USD in hidden penalties that do not exist on the PDF statement. # Additional info: \- Happened on 19th June 2026, around 9.45pm SGT (or 11.45pm AEST) \- Account based in Singapore. \- I am a Singaporean citizen. \- I am currently studying overseas in Melbourne, Australia. \- I have screenshots of all customer service chats, logs & transactions, exact Bitcoin prices then, PDF of account transactions and so on... # | Since my account is based in Singapore, I have already submitted their formal complaint form. If they do not fix this, I am fully prepared to escalate this to FIDReC and report them directly to MAS for regulatory breaches. (Or to AFCA in Australia). Hiding fees off official financial statements has to be illegal. # Q Has anyone else caught them hiding liquidation fees off the official statements like this? How do I get an actual human with authority to look at their broken math? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

-TrustyDwarf-

Silly Iran, how could anyone not see that coming.. even I'm afraid of having my few USDC/T frozen. Just trade Bitcoin or even better Monero.

rosalinaluma0909

I’m more of a scalper, trading around **40–60 trades a day**, so fees matter a lot to me. I actually think you’re looking at the right thing. Crypto fees are expensive compared to many traditional futures markets, and the tick value is much smaller than something like Nasdaq futures. That said, don’t look at fees alone. **Liquidity is just as important.** A cheaper exchange with poor liquidity can easily cost you more through spread and slippage. One thing I’d add is that spot and futures are different. In crypto, futures usually lead price discovery, while spot tends to follow. Futures fees are also generally more competitive than spot fees. Binance used to offer **0 maker fees on some USDC perpetuals** (I’m not sure if that promotion is still running—I haven’t traded much recently). For a maker-based strategy, that was a huge advantage because it gave your edge much more room to breathe. Taker fees, however, are still expensive. I remember calculating that on ETH perpetuals, using taker orders meant price had to move **around 160 ticks** just to overcome fees before there was any real profit. Otherwise, it often ended up as a scratch trade. That’s a huge cost if you’re trading frequently. **Fees don’t create an edge, but they can absolutely destroy one.**

ArcanuMELO

Well said. I don't trust Tether much either. USDC is sort of the obvious choice as a current ball-playing unofficially CBDC as it's compliant and will do anything the US gov will ask of it.

rorygraman

Quicknode is launching their USDC Earn product this week, which automates the movement of your USDC across different Morpho vaults to get the best APY. You can set minimums for TVL and liquidity so your USDC doesn't get locked up. RE: you using Coinbase for rewards, they leverage Steakhouse vaults for their consumer USDC yield, so instead of paying Coinbase a portion of yield, you can get it directly. I'm the Senior Product Manager working on this product at Quicknode, so if you have any questions, just let me know!

supercashme

I actually think that's the goal. Most people don't know or care whether a payment goes through ACH, Visa, or SWIFT they just care that it works. If stablecoins become truly mainstream, they'll probably fade into the background the same way. People won't say, "I'm paying with USDC." They'll just scan a QR code or tap a button and expect the transaction to be instant and inexpensive. The technology succeeds when users don't have to think about the technology.

Heclalava

Kraken offers 4.25% APY on USDC

molecularzen

Operational control is one of 10 lenses. **More broadly, consider where do tokenized assets outperform what they represent?** **Beyond the jargonomics and chainbabble.** The fundamentals are old. What’s new is who gets access, how small the ticket can be, how easily they can participate, and whether the digital dividend reaches holders’ pockets, or funds someone else's European summer. **A useful 10 lens test:** 1. Access: Who is allowed to enter or hold? 2. Settlement: When is value movement final? 3. Transparency: What may be seen, known, and verified? 4. Yield: What fruit does it bear, and from whose labor? 5. Costs: What stated or hidden tolls lie along the path? 6. Collateral: Can one asset unlock another? 7. Transferability: How can it move after entry? 8. Capacity: How much capital and how many holders can it serve without breaking? 9. Redemption: How does one leave, what awaits, when does the door open, and who holds the key? 10. Enforcement: Where does authority finally live: code, company, contract, or court? \----------------------------- **To illustrate:** \-TSLAx (Kraken, Backed), Tesla stock exposure, reach non US across 110 countries, $1 fractional access, trade nights and weekends \-BENJI (Franklin), government money-market fund, earn Treasury yield from low $20 minimum, transfer nights and weekends \-OUSG (Ondo), BUIDL-backed Treasury fund, access BUIDL yield (far) below $5M minimum, redeem into USDC atomically 24/7 \-PAXG (Paxos), allocated physical gold, verify your bar details, send gold exposure near instantly, earn yield through Nexo lending or Curve trading, without selling \-wJAAA (Centrifuge, 3F, Janus), AAA CLO fund, amplify CLO yield with leverage, loop through 3F and Morpho \-USTB (Superstate), government-securities fund, borrow without selling your Treasuries using Aave Horizon \-SPCX (Backpack), pooled SpaceX exposure, Solana transfer freedom, brokerage-claim offramp \-PHOTON (Reserve, Ondo), indexed basket of Nasdaq/NYSE listed photonics stocks, reach investors across 145 countries, buy fractionally without brokerage access, trade and redeem onchain 24/7 \----------------------------- Those are a few of the attractions, but new doors come with new risks. Fees are slippery. The fee you can see may hide the spread you cannot. A token can remove one toll booth -and add another around the corner. Access is not freedom. A token may travel farther than a brokerage account, while still carrying passports, gates, and forbidden countries. Yield is seductive. Gold does not yield. PAXG on Nexo can. JAAA yields. wJAAA can loop. Not a free lunch, but rather it’s risk in a new dress. Enforcement remains fragmented. Authority may sit across contracts, whitelists, transfer agents, issuer books, broker records, and courts. Programmable rules help. Split authority and people in the middle still creates failure points. Redemption is king until everyone reaches for the same door. The token may move quickly, but the exit still has intermediaries, jurisdictions, business hours, and an underlying asset that must survive the rush. Then everyone becomes an expert in the fine print. Most tokenized assets improve one or two lenses while leaving the hardest work offchain. The strongest will improve both everyday use and stressed exits. **Which tokenized assets performs across the most lenses today?** drop some tickers and evidence.

trimalcus

Any stablecoin is centralized by design. USDC, EURC, even USDT can freeze your found

mtgox-fraud

Everyone's fixated on the $14.2M. They moved stolen SOL into ETH and skipped stablecoins entirely. Someone cashing to USDC wants out that day. Someone sitting in ETH is willing to hold a year. That's patience, and patience is what makes recovery unlikely. 181K SOL left in one clean transfer. No approval-farming, no drained allowances, no dust. On-chain it looks identical to the owner just sending his own funds, which means whoever did this had the private key or a signing path straight to it. I made money in the early exchange days and mostly remember watching people lose theirs to a single point of failure they never knew they had. One key, one machine, one bad day.

fyworries

Using AAVE as collateral doesn’t generate any yield, there’s 0% APY for that token. You can still borrow against it but you won’t “earn coin lending it out.” That being said, I do borrow USDC against my AAVE using their platform and I use it to buy other token that I believe will outperform in the coming years.

ShipMysterious7602

Various reason, often it's because the source only allows one kind of withdrawal like say USDT-TRC20 while I might need USDC-Polygon for something like Tangem Pay or similar. I do not always need to swap or bridge but there are times where you run into hurdles and your only alternative then is to send it onto an exchange like Binance to swap it out there or to make use of the, usually, included swap options. Must admit though, that I hardly do anymore, streamlined things down to a point where I no longer need to swap/bridge so often by selecting different service providers or products. But point stand, crypto in general is anything but cheap once you start swapping or bridging on a regular basis. You really need to do your homework in regards to costs otherwise you can quickly end up losing up to 5% of your capital just in fees to get the crypto where you need it to be.

EvolvedPikachu

In a similar boat here, bank withdrawal and USDC transfer both pending for 7 days now, I am still able to deposit money in but I can't take or send any money out. Support have not provided any information (asking every day), didn't even tell me what's wrong and basically getting no reactions. Completely lost here.

Hacken_io

Yes..but. The CLARITY act beside the fact of giving more clear vision on DeFi products, is also banning the health competition between DeFi and traditional banks. The thing is, why a lot of people loved stables - is yield on them. It gives you more % then deposit in bank. So, CLARITY Act negotiators are moving to ban those stablecoin yield that's "economically or functionally equivalent" to a bank deposit. That's a direct hit on the exact model your Coinbase/Morpho vault example relies on "hold USDC, earn yield." If passive-holding rewards get banned, DeFi products built on that narrative either have to restructure around active use, or lose access to US users. Banks pushed hard for this decision, worried about deposit competition, so it's hard not to read it as regulatory leverage being used to blunt DeFi's ability to compete with traditional bank deposits, not just give "clarity"

noel_ocean_1989

Nice stack for that time period, and totally agree on dca being the move. Trying to nail entries perfectly is a losing game for most people. My strategys been similar but I've been using aΙphasquared to scale my buys based on their risk score. so when risk is low I buy heavier, when it's elevated I pull back or just hold cash. Kinda like what you're doing with saving up USDC for dips, but more systematic so I dont have to guess when the dip is "dip enough" lol. For the selling side I've set up thresholds where I take partial profits as risk climbs.. Keeps me from getting greedy and riding it all the way back down like I did in 2022. how aggressive are you planning to deploy that 1500/month stash? All at once on a specific % drop or spreading it out?

CODE_HEIST

USDC pairs could make small tokens feel cleaner, especially for people who hate mentally converting SOL every five seconds. but if the contract, liquidity, and holders look bad, the pair currency does not save it.

LordDuhon

If you want to swap it to USDC, you can use NEAR Intents and end up paying like $2 in fees.

CODE_HEIST

i kind of like the idea for cleaner pricing, but meme coins still live or die on attention loops. USDC can make the pair easier to read, it cannot make the meme memorable.

Legitimate-Style6841

They distributed 3M USDC for 1-19 epochs to 6m users, while almost all of it allocated for Network Points which were introduced @ epoch 11. So basically your referrals and uptime didn't matter at all, while there wasn't any transparency about it

Educational_Cable405

I got the 'your USDT is being delisted, convert or withdraw' email from my exchange during that wave and genuinely panic-swapped everything into USDC because my brain assumed depeg. Turned out there was zero market risk, it was pure compliance theatre. The only thing it cost me was a stressful evening and a bit of spread on the swap. Felt dumb afterward.

Educational_Cable405

Stable to stable that size should be a couple bucks if it hits an actual stableswap pool, so the route is what got you, not the fee. $360 is right around 2.4%, which usually means one of two things: the swap widget left slippage at like 1-3% and a sandwich bot filled exactly up to whatever you left sitting there, or the aggregator hopped you through ETH on the way and you ate price impact on a volatile leg it never needed to touch. Big USDC/USDT orders on a shallow pool are basically a dinner bell for MEV.

GBeastETH

Why did you bother swapping at all? They are both stablecoins. And USDC is properly audited.

Sweaty_Brother_34

USDC

QuickAnywhere3753

True, Tether never bothered applying for MiCA EMT status — they knew the game. But let’s be real: this just means more Europeans will route through non-EU platforms, DEXes, or just withdraw to self-custody like you said. USDT didn’t become king because of friendly regulators. It became king because it’s the easiest on-ramp/off-ramp for normies in high-inflation countries and for people who value speed and simplicity over compliance badges. Swapping to USDC is the ‘safe’ move for EU exchanges, but expecting the shady billions and street-level usage in LatAm/Africa/Asia to suddenly flip is wishful thinking. The shadows don’t do deadlines.

Logical_Lemming

Have you looked at Morpho? Lots of stablecoin vaults paying out in the high-3% to mid-4% range. I really like oku.trade as a front-end for Morpho because you can claim your rewards and swap them and redeposit right there. I do the USDC vault on World Chain for 5.7% (the APR varies, but it stays around 5%). People on this sub don't really use DeFi, I've found.

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Own-Piccolo1033

Just swap it to USDC on a DEX, send it to your CEX and you're good to go

thinkingperson

This is called a pig-slaughter. Entice you with small gains. Then fatten up the deposits until such time when you realise that it's a scam or are unable to deposit anymore, they just shutdown the site or block your account altogether. Whatever amt of USDC you see on the site is just numbers on a database with no backing USDC asset. If you are interested, go find the patient zero in your group. That is the first person who was introduced by a scammer. And I dun need to see the app or the telegram app. Dun even try. It's a scam. So if you are out only 50 USDC, consider yourself lucky and stay far away from it. If you still dabble in it, either you are plain fucking dumb or you are part of the scam. lol Either way, nothing else useful here.

Relative-Golf-235

The person who invited me in was invited over by his good friend who has been using this app for 8 months, and his whole family bought USDC and is participating. They all together transferred more than $5,000 into this fraudulent AI app. The guy who has been pushing a button for 8 months was able to withdraw the initial $500 that he deposited at the start, but as I see now, his family will most likely lose everything they deposited as this can't be real. I personally have only $50 in USDC of my own money in it because that is the minimum to enter, and I was suspicious, but you can't really see what is going on until you enter the app and afterward the Telegram app to learn and share "progress." I could share an invite to Telegram, but I think if they see that you don't have an account on the app, they could block me, and I would lose that deposited USDC, and maybe the guy who invited me would also lose everything.